Working-class communist leader elected rector of an ancient Scots university
Then University of Glasgow student, Dougie Harrison, recall’s Reid’s election fifty-one years ago. In summer 1971, with every active communist in
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Jimmy Reid
Pleasing political poems aplenty
Poems from Mathew Knights and Dr David McKinstry. Based in Arbroath, Matthew Knights is a writer and creative writing tutor (www.matthewknights.co.uk)
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Growing jaggier shoots from the briar’s roots: The UCS work-in at 50 and beyond
David Betteridge recalls how men and women were made on the Clyde into fighting fortresses. Where did the statesmen and women
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UCS work in 50th anniversary
The founder of Scottish Left Review, Jimmy Reid, played a leading role in the one of the most successful campaigns of
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Jimmy Reid – remembering a political giant
Academics Bill Knox and Alan McKinlay published their biography of Jimmy Reid called Jimmy Reid: A Clyde-built man (Liverpool University Press,
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Extract from Aamer Anwar’s 2019 Jimmy Reid Foundation annual lecture
Jimmy Reid is often described as ‘the best MP that Scotland has never had’, but I believe that Jimmy was so
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Aamer Anwar’s call to arms to campaign for truth and justice
Catriona Reid and Elizabeth Reid Boulter share their experience of the inspirational annual lecture We are always excited about the annual
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Jimmy Reid’s words still echo on education
David Watt explains the work of the Socialist Educational Association Scotland Jimmy Reid’s rectorial speech of nearly fifty years ago continues
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